Tennis

Revised Ranking. In Manhattan, there assembled the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. As a rule, these meetings are not signally important; officers are elected, reports are read, the list of ranking published by the Executive Committee is confirmed. This year, the listed ranking, as approved and recently published by the committee (TIME, Feb. 2), was submitted to the body. Far from approving, individual members were said to have torn up the list and trampled thereon. Like those deputies who made a certain tennis court in Versailles famed in history,* these gentlemen put their heads together, made up their own ranking list. They removed Watson M. Washburn (placed at Number 6) on the ground that he had not competed in enough tournaments; they expelled Dr. George King from the first ten; set in better places George M. Lott Jr., and Clarence J. Griffin. The first ten now stands: 1) William T. Tilden II, 2) Vincent Richards, 3) William M. Johnston, 4) Howard Kinsey, 5) Wallace F. Johnson, 6) Harvey Snod- grass, 7) John Hennessey, 8) Brian Norton, 9) George M. Lott Jr., 10) Clarence J. Griffin. Rules for Writers. At their meeting, the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association passed upon a rule governing the activities of tennis champions who, for one consideration or another, are moved to write for the press. This rule, recently framed by a special committee headed by U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania, bars writers who are also tennis champions from 1) using their titles to advertise their articles, 2) writing about tournaments in which they are at the moment participating. The rule was unanimously ratified by the Association.

*Mr. Rockefeller generally plays with General Adelbert Ames, "90-year-old veteran."

--When Louis XVI called a meeting of the States General, in 1789, to discuss taxation reforms, deputies of The Third Estate (the people), enraged because they were not allowed to sit with the Nobles and Clergy nor given like powers, repaired to a tennis court, where they took an oath never to disband until they had made a constitution for France. This marked the beginning of the French Revolution.